Clark Haaland

There’s a piece of advice I still struggle with, but that I’m more and more convinced lies at the heart of meaningful productivity, successful creative work, and a more vibrant life in general. That advice is: act fast. Move quickly. When you get a good idea, make it your default policy to put it into practice as soon as you reasonably can.

Happiness Is Not Pleasure. I Kill Pleasure.

In a conversation with the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, the philosopher Simon Critchley began to define happiness as synonymous with pleasure. “I have to say,” Hoffman intervened, “you’re starting to define happiness in a way that pertains to pleasure. But I would definitely say that pleasure is not... See more

Quote I’m pondering

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”​― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“You have created us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”

-St. Augustine of Hippo, 4th Century African Bishop

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.”

-Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian and philosopher of the 1800s